Bruno Himpkamp
Bruno Himpkamp (born December 28, 1925 in Hamburg ; † December 8, 2008 ibid) was a supporter of the swing boys and a member of the White Rose Hamburg during the Nazi era .
Life
Bruno Himpkamp was a student at the Wichern School in Hamburg-Horn . In 1942 he had to leave it because he was accused of having politically influenced and endangered his classmates. He liked jazz and regularly listened to banned foreign radio stations. He also became aware of the political oppression and the racial ideological persecution of the Jews in the German Reich . He joined the swing youth with his friends Thorsten Müller and Gerd Spitzbarth. In the summer of 1942 he was briefly arrested in a large-scale wave of arrests by the Gestapo against “Americanized” young people.
From April 1943, through Hans Leipelt , who was four years older than him and who had temporarily been his tutor, he and his friends came into contact with the resistance group of the Hamburg branch of the White Rose . Considerations and discussions took place between individual participants about carrying out sensational protests against the Nazi regime. So it was considered to organize a demonstration march over the Jungfernstieg or even to blow up the Hamburg Gestapo headquarters at the Stadthausbrücke or the Lombard Bridge. These ideas were not implemented.
In another wave of arrests against the Swing youth on May 12, 1943, Bruno Himpkamp was arrested. He was imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel police prison , and on June 6, 1944, he was transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp as a police prisoner . He was the main defendant in the proceedings against Bruno Himpkamp, Gerd Spitzbarth and Thorsten Müller , a part of the proceedings against the members of the Hamburg White Rose. The hearing took place on April 19, 1945 before the People's Court in Hamburg in Himpkamp's absence. He had already been liberated by American troops in Stendal on April 12, 1945.
See also
literature
- Herbert Diercks : Freedom lives. Resistance and persecution in Hamburg 1933-1945. Texts, photos and documents. Published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Hamburg City Hall from January 22 to February 14, 2010, p. 38 f.
- Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933 - 1945 , second edition, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7 , p. 404 ff.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Himpkamp, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 2008 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |